Eurovision Song Contest, JJ (Austria) wins. Lucio Corsi Quinto
A “normal” Eurovision: after the controversies of last year, this year everything was smooth, at least on the surface. And all even a little predictable, at least for the show. Some surprises instead for the musical competition: he won Austria and JJ, with “Wasted Love” – Sweden, favored on the eve, only 4th.
Lucio Corsi’s Italy and “I wanted to be a tough” he got a good result, a 5th place, With 256 points (159 points from the juries, 97 from televoting). Two more positions than last year, when we arrived 7th with Angelina Mango, but with 12 points less than last year.
In the general classification according to Israel (Yuval Raphael, “New Day Will Rise”), third Estonia with Tommy Cash and “Macchiato Espresso”. Last San Marino and Gabry bridge with 27 points (of which 9 from the juries and 18 from the televoting, of which 12 from Italy).
Austria won the vote of the juries with 258 points, against the 214 of Switzerland, which then took 0 points from the televoting. Israel instead won the televoting with 297 votes, but it was not enough to overcome Austria.
Here are the tops and flops of the final and edition 2025 of Eurovision.
Top: Lucio Corsi
An alien to Eurovision Song Contest. As we say every year: national cheering makes us perceive our songs as masterpieces and shaking all the others: it happens to each country … but put alongside “I wanted to be a tough” and “all of Italy” and you understand. Then, in Eurovision is Lucio Corsi the exception: a few years ago, a similar choice had worked with Portugal, who in 2017 had won with “Amar Pelos Dois” by Salvador Sobral, who had explicitly distanced himself from “music with fireworks”. This year, however, it went to Lucio Corsi: 5th place is an excellent result and confirms us in the top 10 as for many years now.
Top (O) Gigio
Lucio Corsi has redone his T -shirt in the Eurovision version: “I Wanted to Be a Tough Guy”, with the Looney Tunes. But Italy has not betrayed Topo Gigio, who announced the 12 points of our country, assigned to England. Our 12 points on televoting went to San Marino.
Flop: the new regulations
After the communication disasters of last year – political controversies, a competitor excluded from the final – the Ebu organization tried to keep everything under control: very rigid conduct regulations were introduced which, was explained at the beginning of the event, were not “punitive but responsibility measures”. The flags were prohibited on stage and little were seen among the public; The whistles, when there were (and were there), did not feel. It continues to pretend that this is an apolitical event: we have seen a neutral Eurovision like Switzerland, in a world that is instead in the midst of conflicts.
Top and flop: the show and the performances
Eurovision lives on the border between the trash and the camp, between the imitation of bad taste and the conscious and self -deprecating excess. It has a very high level production, which this year has been seen above all in the mammoth, a frame that gave a depth effect to performance: those who have been able to use it has created truly spectacular shows, live video clips in a very rapid sequence. It is not a model replicable in Sanremo, because here everything is in playback except the voices – it is the premise to maintain a rhythm that will never have at the festival. In this Eurovision it remains truly unique.
Too bad for the rest, however: this year the show built around the songs was little, with very self -referential choices. Things like Michelle Hunziker who sang “In the blue painted blue” in the Gipsy Kings version (or rather, they should have been seen, because Rai sent the advertising …) and afterwards opened the televoting singing “vote” on the notes of “fly” …
The curtains of Switzerland who self -healbed have reached new peaks, with forks of giant fondue on stage. Then a medley of Swiss songs in Eurovision that nobody remembered – but no trace of Céline Dion, who participated and won for Switzerland in 1988, with “Partz Pas Sans Moi”.
Flop: the songs
They are not the center of Eurovision, but this year they were really ugly. I made the account: excluding Italy, on the other 25 of the final were saved 3, perhaps 4: the group of Portuguese songwriters Napa with the Beatlesian “Deslocado”, the refined electronics (too much, for ESC), of the Albanians Shkodra Elektronike. In the field of pop not bad the classic one of Germany and the song-meme of Tommy Cash, who at least takes little seriously and had a beautiful staging.
The worst songs: the English Girl Band Remember Mondoy, a little musical, a little queen rewritten by artificial intelligence: 0 points from the televoting, welcomed with an average finger by one of the singers … The folk-Edm of the Icelandic Væb (which seems to have come out of the film Parodia on Eurovision a few years ago, with Will Ferrell, starring just the Icelanders). The Finn who sang “Ich Komme” on a giant microphone with fireworks went beyond the trash, as well as the Dragon of Poland, which seemed to have come out of “Game of Thrones”. And also Sweden, with the song on the Kaj sauna, really terrible. France was not joking, who every year chooses a word-solipite and sings it with great emphasis: this year it was “Maman”.
In the end JJ’s Austrian song, the one he won, was among the least worst: very, too epic, but the staging was decidedly spectacular.
